This was a tongue in cheek look at the rise of citizens in social change. In the 21 century, the power of networks may replace the power of organisations in driving social change. This 40 minute talk at York CVS will showcase organisations and movements which are challenging existing institutions, organisations and hierarchies..

1. Why we no longer need
organisations
Casey Morrison - Oct 2012
(gulp)

2. Bowling alone

5. Membership of political parties

8. The civic core
• Declining ages of those participating
• Social demigrapcs of those participating

10. Any good news..?
• The dominant model
used to be: “group then
share”.
• Now the dominant
model is “share then
group”.

11. • The ‘reply all’ function of e-mail
• Flikr
• Wikipedia
• Linx
• Mysociety
• Mass customisation – new taylored e-books.
• Etsy produce.
= cooperation without coordination.

12. The cost of information is low

13. Cognitive surplus

15. Six degrees of separation?
• A study of 5.2 billion social media relationships
the average distance of a single twitter user is
4.67 steps away from any other twitter user.
• Birmingham’s Transforming Infrastructure bid as
“no community, or individual citizen, should be
excluded by more than three degrees of
separation from decision making and
influencing the future of the city”.

18. From collective to reflexive
volunteering
• Police telling volunteers not to get involved
• People unhappy with the official response

19. Collaborative consumption
Our Leisure time is
now ACTIVE.
Can we combine a love
for simple pleasures
with a new normal lack
of time and money..?

20. The status quo..?

21. Challenging the status quo..?
•The #spartacus report
•Local vs national
disabled respite
holiday homes
•Occupy, anonymous,
wikileaks..

22. Millenials
• “The growing trend is to work outside of
the boundaries or to find new solutions
“This generation will accelerate the trend of
reflexive volunteering and create a new
set of volunteer based institutions rather
than join and support currently
established institutions and organizations.”
Howe and Strauss, 2000

23. The Starfish and the Spider
• Leaderless organisations
• Wikipedia, Grokster and
YouTube.
• Alcoholics Anonymous,
Samaritans & the Scouts

24. The diffused organisational model

25. Self-organisation in Hanoi Traffic